Though famously reclusive, Superman sat down with us to share how he starts his day.

It happens to everyone: you're going about your day when suddenly you notice something up in the air. It's not a bird, it's not a plane: it's that mysterious visitor from another planet, zipping off to rescue someone from a burning building or fight off another interplanetary invader. Though he's famously reclusive, (there are even rumors that he disguises himself to walk among us), the Man of Steel sat down to tell us how he starts his day in honor of the release of "Man of Steel" on DVD and Blu-ray.

Do you sleep? When do you usually wake up or decide to get ready for the day? Are you an early riser?

This probably won't make me a lot of friends, but I can work around the clock, pretty much indefinitely. That said, I tend to match my daily routine to the natural cycle of whatever planet I happen to be on. Here on Earth, I start my day with the first light of the sun. If it's overcast, I can feel a little sluggish. But I perk myself up with a hot shower—as hot as the plumbing will allow, which is about 130 degrees in most metropolitan areas. In my Fortress of Solitude, I'll pump it up past boiling.

A writer named John Byrne explained this a few years back -- I trim away stubble by reflecting my own heat vision off a bit of metal from my home planet Krypton. No big deal.

Do you have to eat? If not, do you like to eat? Is there anything in the morning that you generally like? Do you drink coffee? Do you eat generally more or less than human beings?

Again, please don't hate me. But one of the perks of being Superman is that I can almost literally eat anything and suffer no ill health effects. My body's pretty efficient about converting any organic matter into energy. But my tastes are actually pretty simple. My favorite breakfast consists of 18 farm fresh eggs, sunny side up, fried in butter, a half gallon of orange juice, whole wheat bread still warm from the oven, and six or seven grapefruit, which I peel and eat like oranges. Caffeine has no effect on me, but I do like the smell of coffee and will drink an urn or two, if it's hot enough.

Do you try to eat healthy, or given your natural advantages, do you let yourself pig-out once in a while?

I am able to eat a really embarrassingly huge number of ice cream sandwiches.

Do you work out? You look ripped, and given how strong you are, it seems like you'd have to work extra hard to get built like that. If you do work out, do you have any kind of morning exercise routine?

My job pretty much consists of non-stop workouts. Flying is actually really good for the abs, believe it or not. It's all about the core.

Is there anything else you like to do to start your day? I notice that you've given several interviews to The Daily Planet—do you like to read the newspaper?

You bet, all the papers, cover to cover, every day. Gotta stay as informed as possible in my line of work.

Some people say the news biz is dying—what do you think?

Well, news will never die—we just deliver and receive it through different means. There's a pretty decent reporter in Metropolis named Kemp or Kent, I think, who used to write for the Daily Planet. But now he's writing online and possibly reaching an even bigger audience. This is going online, right?

It is! I'm assuming that you have some kind of job in the more inconspicuous part of your life. And there's a lot of speculation that you live in or near the city. So how do you get to work? Do you drive or take public transit? Or —ahem— fly?

I fly. Wouldn't you? ;-)

** Superman's answers provided by Greg Pak, an award-winning comic book writer and filmmaker currently writing the “Code Monkey Save World” graphic novel based on the songs of Jonathan Coulton, “Batman/Superman” and “Action Comics” for DC Comics, and “Eternal Warrior” for Valiant Comics.